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Verse Jeremiah 19:9. _I WILL CAUSE THEM TO EAT THE FLESH OF THEIR
SONS_] This was literally fulfilled when Jerusalem was besieged by the
Romans. This also the prophet might have had in view....
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CHAPTER 19
The Broken Bottle
_ 1. The broken bottle and the message (Jeremiah 19:1) _
2. The fate announced in the court of the Lord's house (Jeremiah
19:14)
Jeremiah 19:1. He was to get
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JEREMIAH 19:1 TO JEREMIAH 20:6. THE EARTHENWARE FLASK; JEREMIAH IN THE
STOCKS. This section seems to be editorially grouped with the last
because of the further reference to pottery; the original prop...
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TO EAT THE FLESH, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:29;
Deuteronomy 28:53). Compare Lamentations 2:20;...
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The _v_. is taken from Deuteronomy 28:53. Cp. Leviticus 26:29. For the
fulfilment see Lamentations 4:10....
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These _vv_. are probably an editorial insertion, for (_a_) the message
which God was to give the prophet in the valley of Ben-Hinnom
(Jeremiah 19:2) is here given him (Jeremiah 19:3 ff.) before he goe...
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I WILL CAUSE THEM TO EAT THE FLESH OF THEIR SONS— See 2 Kings 6:29.
REFLECTIONS.—1st, To awaken conviction in the hearts of a stupid
people, every method is tried, that they may be left at last utter...
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III. THE BROKEN VESSEL Jeremiah 19:1 to Jeremiah 20:6
In the parable of the potter and his clay the point was the
possibility of remaking a vessel which has not met with approval; in
chapter 19 the em...
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In Jeremiah 18 the special lesson was the power of God to alter at any
moment the destinies of a people. Here, on the other hand, it is
taught that the time may come when the only alteration must take...
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This was fulfilled in the Chaldean siege of Jerusalem: see
Lamentations 2:20; Lamentations 4:10....
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I WILL CAUSE THEM TO EAT... — Once again an echo, almost a
quotation, from Deuteronomy (Deuteronomy 28:53). The woes of that
memorable chapter had obviously furnished the prophet both with
imagery and...
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וְ הַֽאֲכַלְתִּ֞ים אֶת ־בְּשַׂ֣ר
בְּנֵיהֶ֗ם וְ...
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CHAPTER XII
THE BROKEN VESSEL - A SYMBOL OF JUDGMENT
Jeremiah 19:1
THE result of his former address, founded upon the procedure of the
potter, had only been to bring out into clearer distinctness t...
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WIDESPREAD CORRUPTION
Jeremiah 5:1-6; Jeremiah 19:1-15; Jeremiah 20:1-18; Jeremiah 21:1-14;
Jeremiah 22:1-30; Jeremiah 23:1-40; Jeremiah 24:1-10; Jeremiah
25:1-38;...
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Jeremiah was now commissioned to go forth into the valley of the son
of Hinnon, taking with him a potter's vessel. His message there was of
judgment. Because the people had forsaken Jehovah, and had s...
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_Sons, to punish them for their cruel sacrifices. (St. Jerome) ---
This was verified under Sedecias, Lamentations ii. 10., and iv. 10.,
and Ezechiel v. 10._...
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There are several weighty circumstances which strike our m in d, on
reading this sermon of Jeremiah. Let the Reader observe in the first
place, the Persons whom the Prophet was to gather to hear it: t...
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Here the Prophet goes farther — that so atrocious would be the
calamity, that even fathers and mothers would not abstain from their
children, but would devour their flesh. This was indeed monstrous. I...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 AND 20.
Chapter s 19 and 20 shew us the judgment of Jerusalem announced in
terms that require little explanation; and we have in chapter 20 a
sample of the...
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AND I WILL CAUSE THEM TO EAT THE FLESH OF THEIR SONS, AND THE FLESH OF
THEIR DAUGHTERS,.... For want of food; the famine should be so great
and pressing. Jeremiah, that foretells this, was a witness o...
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And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of
their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend
in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and th...
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_Therefore, behold, the days come_ And are at no great distance; _that
this place shall no more be called Tophet_, &c. In Joshua's time it
was called _The valley of the son of Hinnom;_ in after ages,...
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And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of
their daughters, in a form of the most abhorrent cannibalism, as
threatened in the special curses of the Law, Leviticus 26:29;
Deu...
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THE PARABOLIC ACTION AND ITS EXPLANATION...
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1-9 The prophet must give notice of ruin coming upon Judah and
Jerusalem. Both rulers and ruled must attend to it. That place which
holiness made the joy of the whole earth, sin made the reproach and...
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These were the miserable effects or consequents of the famine with
which God had often before threatened them, the just fulfilling of
God's word threatened LEVITICUS 26:29 DEUTERONOMY 28:53, and the
a...
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Jeremiah 19:9 eat H398 (H8689) flesh H1320 sons H1121 flesh H1320
daughters H1323 everyone H376 eat H398 ...
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THE LESSON OF THE POTTER'S VESSEL (JEREMIAH 19:1).
Jeremiah was now called on to perform a prophetic ritual through which
he would vividly depict what was to happen to Judah and Jerusalem.
This too wa...
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CONTENTS: Sign of potter's house, concluded. Coming calamities
CHARACTERS: Jeremiah, Kings of Judah.
CONCLUSION: Let men great and small know that the Lord of Hosts is
able to do what He threatens,...
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Jeremiah 19:1. _Take of the ancients of the people, and of the
ancients of the priests,_ that aged men might have weight in reforming
the bloody worship of the idolaters.
Jeremiah 19:2. _The valley of...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 19:9 EAT THE FLESH. Because of the lack of
food caused by the SIEGE, the people of Judah will turn to cannibalism
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—See notes to preceding chapter for
_Chronology_, &c. _Vide_ also Introductory Notes to chap. 20.
GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES.— Jeremiah 19:2. “_Valley of the Son of
Hinnom_,...
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EXPOSITION
With this chapter, Jeremiah 19:1 of the next ought undoubtedly to be
connected to complete the narrative. Jeremiah here comes before us
performing another symbolical action. By breaking a p...
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Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle (Jeremiah
19:1),
Take one of the bottles that the potter has made. Clay bottles.
and take the old men of the people, and of the priests; And...
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2 Kings 6:26; Deuteronomy 28:53; Ezekiel 5:10; Isaiah 9:20;...